Minimising Waste at Christmas
While Christmas is primarily a time of giving, and a time to get together with friends and family, it is also a very wasteful period. Statistics show that as a country, we can produce...
Category: Christmas
Doing something for others at Christmas
Christmas is all about indulging, eating too much, drinking too much and having a lot of fun, but it’s easy to take it for granted not everyone can enjoy Christmas like this. So if...
Alternatives to plastic Christmas toys
We’ve been reminiscing lately about Christmases past, and our favourite childhood toys from the 90s, 80s (which some of our younger team members don’t even remember – way to feel old!) and more recently,...
Yuletide nut roast recipe – made vegan-friendly
Vegans new and old have probably had that awkward conversation with family about what they can and cannot eat for Christmas dinner. We all know that turkey and goose are mainstays when it comes...
Top Christmas Presents from 5 Years Ago – 2013
We’re living in an increasingly digital age that’s more or less done away with traditionally made toys, but toy companies are finding ways to take older toys and repurpose them for a new generation...
The Top Gifts From 10 Years Ago – Christmas 2008
With social media on the up-and-up and Web 2.0 giving us less reasons to head out to the shops, Christmas 2008 was tech-heavy; much like the Christmas’s we’re used to seeing nowadays. In the...
The top gifts from 20 years ago – 1998
Where did the time go? 20 years ago seems like such a long time, but it’s getting closer and closer to the beginning of the 21st century. Two decades ago it was 1998, and...
The Top Gifts From 30 Years Ago – 1988
The big day looms upon us once more – evident by the Christmas songs that you started to hear before the Halloween decorations were even down. Nowadays, most traditional toys have been replaced from...
The Big Food Bank Friday Donation
This year’s black Friday sales have seen a whopping £5,370 worth of food being donated to the Newcastle West End Foodbank as a result of our Food Bank Friday (Alternative to Black Friday) offer....
Top gifts from 5 years ago – 2012
We are now 5 years overdue from the end of the world, with Christmas 2012 long gone and the innovations that it spawned still leaving their impressions on us to this day. Perhaps these...